I have a new guilty pleasure: the television show Cashmere Mafia.
For all you Carrie Bradshaw fans who need a fix, Cashmere Mafia is kind of like Sex and the City but toned-down for network TV. It airs on Wednesdays at 9:00 p.m on ABC.
Like Sex and the City, the show is about four women and their friendship. But these particular women became friends in business school (think Wharton), and fifteen years later, they are all Prada-wearing, Blackberry-wielding, take-no-prisoners business execs in New York.
The clothes are fabulous. The banter is pithy. But I am not completely sold on it yet due to one storyline that just bugs me.
One of the women has been married for 15 years. For years, she has known that her husband is "stepping out" on her, but she puts up with it. Then, she finds out that he is currently having an affair with someone she knows, and instead of kicking him to the curb, she stays with him because she doesn't want to be alone. She then plots to even the score by having a fling of her own.
So, basically, this strong, intelligent, successful woman becomes stupid when it comes to her cheating spouse. That's the part I can't stomach.
The third episode airs tonight. I'm still hoping that she'll dump him.
(The spouse dislikes the fact that all the men on the show are portrayed as "dogs," but he says he will continue to watch with me.)
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Speaking of intelligent, successful women, did you hear that Oprah is starting her own cable television network? The Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) will replace the Discovery Health channel in 2009.
